2008-08-29, 04:00 PM
Yeah, it's the network.
College dorm networks are notorious for the bandwidth shaping that they do. (Mostly because everyone is trying to run torrents. >_>) In many cases, the dorm and the rest of the college share the same internet link, which means the dorm network gets throttled during college hours to help prevent all those torrent kids from slowing down the rest of the college.
Two friends of mine have had the same problem as you, and they could fix it by using skype/Ventrilo while they were on MS. The VoIP programs gave them higher priority, or something. I'm guessing you could get better performance on MS in the evening.. but other than that, there's not much you can do. You could try contacting your college network's helpdesk, but they will probably tell you that their network is not filtered and/or that they can't change network rules for your needs and/or that games are not supported on their network. >_>
College dorm networks are notorious for the bandwidth shaping that they do. (Mostly because everyone is trying to run torrents. >_>) In many cases, the dorm and the rest of the college share the same internet link, which means the dorm network gets throttled during college hours to help prevent all those torrent kids from slowing down the rest of the college.
Two friends of mine have had the same problem as you, and they could fix it by using skype/Ventrilo while they were on MS. The VoIP programs gave them higher priority, or something. I'm guessing you could get better performance on MS in the evening.. but other than that, there's not much you can do. You could try contacting your college network's helpdesk, but they will probably tell you that their network is not filtered and/or that they can't change network rules for your needs and/or that games are not supported on their network. >_>